Sidekiq to Temporal: a zero-downtime migration strategy
Outlines a ‘Wrap, Refactor, Reroute, Retire’ strategy for migrating high-availability production systems from Sidekiq to...
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LLMs, Requirements, and Results
LLMs simplify the translation of ideas into code, but the fundamental challenge of accurately specifying...
Deploying to Firebase Hosting + Firestore from GitHub actions
Provides a guide and YAML configuration for automating Firebase deployments using GitHub Actions. It covers...
Quiz: Ruby & Rspec scoping
Presents a short quiz about Ruby and RSpec variable scoping within test blocks. It challenges...
Performance trap: general libraries & helper objects
Explores how general-purpose library abstractions can introduce significant performance overhead due to unnecessary object construction...
Tidy First?, reflect next: chapter 6
“Cohesion order” is the practice of colocating code that changes together to surface coupling and...
Tidy First?, reflect next: chapter 5
Reordering file contents improves readability for new readers, despite a personal preference for navigating code...
Optimizing QuPath intensity measurements: 12.5 hr to 2min
Describes a massive performance optimization in spatial biology image analysis by using the Proxy pattern...
Tidy First?, reflect next: chapter 4
Wrapping old implementations with new interfaces facilitates refactoring, such as converting stateful classes into stateless...
Re-rebuilding TF2.8 image: 369 patches
Reports on a maintenance update for a TensorFlow 2.8 Docker image that incorporated 369 security...
Tidy First?, reflect next: chapter 3
Normalizing symmetries in code is important to manage the “organic” mutation of software and prevent...
Tidy First?, reflect next: chapter 2
The proactive removal of dead code—code that never runs or does nothing—is an explicit and...
Tidy First?, reflect next: chapter 1
Applying the concept of guard clauses to simplify complex conditional logic, reflecting on Kent Beck’s...
gs-fastcopy: get CPU count for upload workers
Discusses an enhancement to the gs-fastcopy package that automatically detects the available CPU count to...
Introducing gs-fastcopy
Introduces a Python package designed to optimize Google Cloud Storage file transfers by using multi-threading....
Ensuring GCE instances have full access to GCP APIs
Explains that default Google Compute Engine settings restrict API access even if the service account...
Improve TensorFlow model load time by ~70% using HDF5 instead of SavedModel
Demonstrates how switching from TensorFlow’s SavedModel format to HDF5 can significantly reduce model load times....
GitHub to Artifact Registry & Docker Hub via Cloud Build
Details the process of automating container builds using GitHub Actions to trigger Google Cloud Build....
One Byte Explainer: Recursion
Describes recursion as a problem-solving technique that splits complex problems into simpler, identical pieces. It...
One Byte Explainer: Large Language Models
Explains that LLMs communicate by modeling human patterns from vast training data. It notes their...